2.4mR Harken Frostbite Regatta at Marstrand, Sweden
by Megan Pascoe 8 Dec 2008 15:45 GMT
6-7 December 2008
5 countries sailed the 2.4 at Marstrand for the annual Frostbite racing raising money for the Swedish Cancer Foundation. 23 boats joined the CB66 racers and the C55s for a surprisingly warm regatta. While the UK was in snow, Marstrand was in fog and little wind.
The competition was tough with one Olympic medallist, a Paralympic medallist, a world champion and two national champions.
The first race was tricky with the course taking the boats into Marstrand harbour with Megan Pascoe British national champion getting stuck in no wind under the harbour wall.
The second race was abandoned due to dying wind but a sunny afternoon saw 2 races with Pascoe winning the last. With the points scoring being taken from the Formula 1 finishing above 8th was important. Megan was second over night behind Jens Als Anderson of Denmark.
The Sunday had again light winds, the first race had many place changes with Megan managing to get two points.
After the wind turned off and then on again the second race saw Jens claiming his second bullet of the day. Megan battled it out in ever lightening conditions to finish 4th which was enough to finish 2nd overall.
Overall Results:
1st Jens Als Anderson, DEN
2nd Megan Pascoe, GBR
3rd Emil Axelsson, SWE
4th Peter Norlin, SWE
5th Bo Hedensjö, SWE